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Bathroom Drainage Do's & Don'ts

Preventing Drainage Clogs

A few helpful ways to keep your bath tubs, showers and toilets from backing up in your home

Showers and Bathtubs

? Just as you'd maintain a sink, consider keeping a strainer in the shower, which will prevent clumps of hair from navigating down the drain and sticking there permanently.

? When pieces of soap get too small, they can mingle with loose hair and cling to the inside of your pipes. The solution? Simply unwrap a new bar of soap before the old one gets too small.

Toilets

? Never flush any paper products outside of toilet paper

? All other paper will cause trouble, including facial tissues, paper towels or women's products, amongst many others. Remember, your toilet is not your trashcan.

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Kitchen Drainage Do's & Don'ts

Reducing Fats, Oils, and Grease in Your Home

Reducing the fats, oils, and grease going down your kitchen sink prevents sewer problems. Following these dos and don'ts will help you and your neighbors avoid expensive sewer backups, plumbing emergencies, and rate increases to cover sewer maintenance and repairs, in your community.

DO

? Recycle used cooking oil or properly dispose of it by pouring it into a sealable container and placing the sealed container in the trash.

? To recycle large amounts, use clay cat litter. Just mix the litter, a little at a time, into the oil. When all the oil has been absorbed, pour the cat litter into a trash bag, seal the bag, then dispose of it in your regular trash.

? Scrape food scraps into the trash, not the sink. ? Wipe pots, pans, and dishes with dry paper towels before rinsing or washing them. Then throw away the paper

towels. ? Place a catch basket or screen over the sink drain when rinsing dishware, or when peeling or trimming food, to

catch small scraps that would otherwise be washed down the drain. Throw the scraps in the trash. ? Rinse dishes and pans with cold water before putting them in the dishwasher. Hot water melts the fats, oils, and

grease (FOG) off the dishes and into the sewer pipes. Later on in the sewer, the hot water will cool and the FOG will clog the pipes.

DON'T

X Don't use a garbage disposal or food grinder. Grinding food up before rinsing it down the drain does not remove FOG; it just makes the pieces smaller. Even non-greasy food scraps can plug your home's sewer lines. So, don't put food of any kind down the drain.

X Don't pour cooking oil, pan drippings, grease, salad dressings, or sauces down the sink or toilet. X Don't use cloth towels or rags to scrape plates or clean greasy or oily dishware. When you wash them, the

grease will end up in the sewer. X Don't run water over dishes, pans, fryers, and griddles to wash oil and grease down the drain.

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The Palm Jumeirah, PO Box 75870, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tel: +971 4 448 1222 I Fax:+971 4 422 0694 I Email: care@

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Proper Use of Residential Sewers

Preventing Drainage Clogs

By paying your service charges, you are paying for the maintenance of your sewer system, and for proper treatment of wastewater before it is released to the city system. Anything you put down the household drain must make its way through a series of pipes and pumps to the Municipality treatment plant. Take proper care to ensure that what you put down your drain won't result in additional maintenance costs, sanitary sewer spills, or even significant reconstruction costs for damages.

This brochure will explain what you can and cannot put down the drain. Please be sure to follow these guidelines to avoid costly increases in maintenance charges or a sewage spill.

Keep our Sewers Fat-Free!

? . When fats, oils, and grease make their way into sewer lines, they can cause sewage overflows and backups.

? This can result in overflowing sewers in your home or community, potential contact with disease-causing organisms, and an increase in operation and maintenance costs.

All of this contributes to higher service levy bills

What you can do to help: ? DO NOT PUSH LARGE AMOUNTS OF FOOD INTO YOUR GARBAGE DISPOSAL. ? AFTER MEALS, SCRAPE FOOD FROM PLATES INTO THE GARBAGE, ? POUR FATS, OILS, AND GREASE FROM COOKING INTO A CONTAINER, PUT A LID ON IT, FREEZE IT, AND PLACE IT IN YOUR GARBAGE.

Your cooperation will have the following benefits: ? REDUCE MAINTENANCE COSTS OF THE SEWER SYSTEM. ? REDUCE OVERFLOWS OF RAW SEWAGE.

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The Palm Jumeirah, PO Box 75870, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tel: +971 4 448 1222 I Fax:+971 4 422 0694 I Email: care@

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